monica martinez

According to Longinus, author of the treatise On the Sublime (Περὶὕψους) who lived in the 1st or 3rd century AD, there are two different sources of sublimity: inborn sources and acquirable...

Milton’s Comus, originally entitled A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, was published in 1637. This masque anticipates the themes of Milton’s great epics –temptation, virtue, and individual...

Pearl and the scarlet letter are both instances of the open symbolism prevalent in Hawthorne’s romance, where a one-to-one correspondence between symbols and reality is not to be found. In fact,...

"Los bomberos" es un relato escrito por Mario Benedetti. Este escritor uruguayo (1920-2009) es autor de una abundante obra, perteneciente a variados géneros: cuento, novela, drama, ensayo y poesía....

Nabokov indeed portrays Humbert as being conscious of the fact that he can be very attractive for a preteen girl. He figures himself as a living personification of the male movie stars Lolita...

To put it simply, the moral of the story could be stated as follows: "those who bring back ancient creatures just to enrich themselves will be eaten by them". However, while this lesson is still...

Aporia is a Greek term denoting a logical contradiction. It is principally found in Greek philosophy, but it also plays a role in post-structuralist philosophy, as in the writings of Derrida and...